Vault49

Today I'd like to talk about the design group Vault49. It's famed for it's maximalist approach to design and illustration. They call them boutique design, illustration and photography studio. The themes are usually fashion-conscious, sexy and provocative female and they create the imagery by using a combination of vibrant colors, gothic and fairyesque characters and multilayered imagery.
It was founded in 2002 in London and now they are based out of New York. They produce award-winning work world wide and feature in many solo and collaborative international exhibitions.

In 2008 the work of Vault49 was considered a genre in its own right by WGSN, and one of the 10 most influential trends of the last decade. The design firm revolutionaised the world of vector illustration.

Here's the link: www.vault49.com/

Names

These are some names I'm thinking for my mobile device prototype.. It's the combination of the words Phonetic + Dictionary.. I added the symbols of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) in some of them. And I think I kinda like that idea; it's communicating the Phonetic system and ultimately my graphic solution is also going to be based on this system.
In example [æ] is the symbol of the sound of the letter 'e' used in the word ponethic and [æ] this is the symbol used in IPA, also p and h letters together make the sound [f]..


PhoneDic

phonædic

ædic

Fonictionary

[f]dic


which one do you think fits the best for my device?

Existing Electronic Dictionaries

i-station UDIC



This one is my favorite..This device has many functions including audio/video, mobile TV, electronic dictionary (US, KR, JP), E-book reader, photo viewer, Wi-Fi, and 30GB or 60GB of HDD.
Video Dic, Audio Dic, and i-Trans. Video Dic and Audio Dic displays the lyrics to the tune you are listening to, and translates them






Unfortunately it's only available in Korea!

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60/30GB Hard-Drive
4.3-inch touch screen
Mobile TV
Captioning videos
E-book reader
Video Dictionary
Audio Dictionary
Wi-Fi


It's like a little pc in your pocket.. The ones below also are great designs, but they don't have Wi-Fi.



Atree UM10

2/4GB storage
3-inch touch screen
TV streaming
audio/video playback, integrated FM radio
e-book capability
Voice recorder
Microsoft Office reader application
Flash games

Iriver D5







2/4GB storage
3-inch touch screen
TV streaming
MPEG-4, flash video
MP3/WMA/OGG
FM radio
Voice recorder
14.9-mm thick closed

mesaj from old times

Hello Everyone,

I found this hilarious flash site and wanted to share it with you.. What it does is basically, you write and can send messages to your friends in different formats such in animation characters or as news reporter from the early 30's.. what makes it so successful is that it sounds pretty naturalistic as a real person reading rather than the scary and fake programming voices that we usually hear when we pay bills on phone.. I would love to hear if you have any ideas about how it was made.. I think the technical part could also help me to figure out my visual project for my Thesis..
Enjoy;
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Fubiz

I was going around some web sites and blogs and I stopped by fubiz
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It's a great site up since 2005 with slogan of "dailly dose of Inspiration". It covers the topics of the graphic world, the urban culture, the products tendencies and numerical arts. The categories are Advertising, Design, Graphic, Inspiration, Motion, Music, Photography and Technology together within the access to galleries of peoples work and collaborative space. I think it's a great site to spent time on getting inspiration and think about concepts.
Here are some of my favorite works so far:
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Hello Interactive 2

This is Nesli and I'm very happy to meet all of you guys at Interactive Design 2 class.